View a graphical chart of file and folder sizes with Disk Inventory X
Disk Inventory X takes a unique approach to helping you analyze your disk space usage by visualizing it as a graphical chart. You can see a breakdown of which types of files are hogging the most space, and clicking on a graphical portion will display the file's location in your Mac's system. Let's hear it for the use of color, shapes and sizes in helping Mac users clean up their hard drives; those Britney Spears MP3 duplicates and abandoned BitTorrent downloads aren't going to trash themselves.
Disk Inventory X is donationware and available from derlien.com.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Brian Stuckey said 10:10AM on 7-19-2006
PC users should look at this program http://www.win.tue.nl/sequoiaview/ - it is essentially the same thing. Both useful for seeing how much space those Bit Torrent tv shows really take up :)
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Jack Debian said 10:37AM on 7-19-2006
Good lord, my porn directory is huge!
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Metryq said 10:43AM on 7-19-2006
Jack, I've never heard it called a "directory" before.
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John from Buffalo said 10:52AM on 7-19-2006
My personal pr0n collection is g0d@nG HUGEEEEAAAA!
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Tim said 11:01AM on 7-19-2006
Awesome! I have windirstat on my PC and it's the most helpful tool when it comes to finding memory hogging materials on my desktop. This is really great news for me and my Macbook Pro.
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ortatherox said 11:15AM on 7-19-2006
I've been using this for a few months, it's hardly nippy when used on my ibook g4. The only negative I can think of is that it has to search every folder again if you resize the program, the one I used before my switch (spacemonger) didn't do that and allowed you to zoom etc. Still, I like it.
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Tacticus said 11:16AM on 7-19-2006
this looks to be quite an awesome applilcation
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Gerald said 11:16AM on 7-19-2006
or try this: http://grandperspectiv.sourceforge.net/
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Jarrod Turner said 11:16AM on 7-19-2006
One of my most used apps, absolutely love it. Wonderful piece of software, really great stuff.
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Scott H said 11:22AM on 7-19-2006
It's AMAZINGLY helpful. Great, great appliation! I found all kinds of files I didn't need anymore, in all kinds of places.
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Anonymous Coward said 11:45AM on 7-19-2006
I've been using this for awhile, and I must say its GREAT, if a bit slow. Oh well, it does its job and does it well, even if it lags a bit (which is completely understandable for what it is doing).
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Uncle Jerry said 11:47AM on 7-19-2006
Does it keep you from tossing out files that you NEED to keep your system running? I would hate to delete something that I wasn't supposed to. But then I guess you should leave it alone if you don't know what it is...
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DaveYeti said 2:49PM on 7-19-2006
This app is great. I'm getting to the limits of my 30GB drive on my ibook and I'm looking for stuff that I can put onto my external drive without missing it. If i get rid of iDVD adn the encyclopedia that I've never used, I'll have 2 gigs right there.
I have the same question an Uncle Jerry, though. Does anyone know how to tell what's safe to delete? I hope I don't mess anything up.
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Reid Ellis said 3:04PM on 7-19-2006
A useful workflow I recently discovered: you can drag folders onto the app icon and it will start up showing just that folder.
Excellent app!
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Wordman said 6:06PM on 7-19-2006
Still waiting for someone to create a Mac port of Filelight (http://www.methylblue.com/filelight/).
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rael9 said 11:45PM on 7-19-2006
I prefer WhatSize, myself. I find it easier to drill down and find where the space is actually being used. The graphic representation is neat, but not as useful.
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